Offense |  | India’s Agni ballistic missile, on parade. |  | India’s Agni II, on a launcher. |  | China’s CSS-2 ballistic missile. |  | China’s CSS-3 ballistic missile. |  | Launch of China’s CSS-6. |  | Launch of China’s CSS-2 ballistic missile. |  | China’s CSS-2 ballistic missile. | | | China’s CSS-2 ballistic missile. |  | China’s CSS-3 ballistic missile. |  | China’s CSS-6, on parade. | |
| Defense |  | Artist’s conception of the Brilliant Pebbles space-based interceptor. |  | An artist’s rendition of Brilliant Pebbles, the system conceived for the Strategic Defense Initiative by Greg Canavan and Lowell Wood, which would destroy a ballistic missile launched from anywhere in the world by using space-based interceptors. |  | The Exo-atmospheric Kill Vehicle (EKV), state of the art in “hit-to-kill” technology. | .jpg "upgraded early warning radar (160K).jpg") | Early Warning Radar (EWR), used to detect missile launches from afar. |  | The Soviet-Russian “Hen House” radar, part of its broader ABM system. | .jpg "payload launch vehicle successful launch (416K).jpg") | Launch of interceptor target missile from Vandenburg, CA air base. |  | Map showing some of the Russian ABM sites around Leningrad in 1962. |  | Intercept by a Patriot Missile. |  | An artist’s rendition of the Russian missile defense system located outside Moscow. |  | Test launch of the Russian S-400 missile defense system. | |
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